284 . Lxxi. SAPOTACE^. ]Hormogynt 



those of Achras^ Sersallsia, Sideroxylon^ and allied genera chiefly in the hypogynous disk 

 surrounding the ovary, which may not in itself be sufficient to constitute a distinct genus, 

 but in the absence of the fruit and seed it is impossible to say to which of them it ought to 

 be referred. 



H 



A straggling or diffuse 



shrub with slender branches, the young shoots sprinkled with a few hairs, 

 otherAvise glabrous. Leaves shortly petiolate, obovate or almost orbicular, 

 very obtuse, under 1 in. long. Flowers solitary in the axils, on recurved 

 pedicels of 1 to 2 lines. Calyx-segments 5, ovate, slightly pubesceut or 

 glabrous, about 1 line long. Corolla-tube exceeding the calyx ; lobes short, 

 truncate. Scales in the corolla-throat slightly dilated towards the top. 

 Ovary within the disk glabrous as well as the rather long style.— Deless. Ic. 

 Sel. v. t. 37 ; Sermlhia cotiuifoUa, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 161. 



Queensland. Moreton Bay, W. mil; Rockhampton, Dallachj, Thozet ; Neiiool 

 Creek and Fitzroy river, Bowman; Port Dcnison, FUzalan. 



N. S. "Wales. Shaded woods, Dividing Raiit(e, north of Liverpool Tlains, A. Ciinninj' 

 ham; Sydney woods, Paris Eihibitiou, 1855, n. 20, a Moore. 



5. MIMUSOPS, Linn. 



Calyx-segments 6 to 8, Corolla-lobes 3 times or rarely twice as many as 

 calyx-segments, in 3 rarely 3 rows, without scales in the throat. Stamens 6 

 to 8, inserted in the throat of the corolla opposite the inner lobes, without 

 intervening stamlnodia. Filaments short] anthers lanceolate, turned out- 

 wards, but opening laterally. Ovary 6- to 8-celled ; ovules laterally attached 

 near the base or almost erect. Seeds more or less compressed; testa hard 

 and shining; liilum either very small ovate and basal, or more or less elou- 

 , gated and lateral. Alburaen copious; cotyledons broad and flat.— Trees or 

 shrubs. Leaves usually with fine parallel veins. Flowers axillaiy, on re- 

 curved pedicels, usually larger than in Ackras. 



The genus is dispersed over the tropical regions of the New as well as the Old V^oAf^ ^}' 

 tending into extratropical South Africa. Of the two Australian species, one extends to in^ 

 Indian Archipelago, the other is not nuite identical with, but closely alhed to a commou 

 i!i. Indian one. 



Calyx-segments, stamens, and inner corolla-lobes 8. Leaves ovate, not ., ,. 



white underneath 1. M.parvtfoiui- 



Calyx-segments, stamens, and inner corolla-lobes' 6.' Leaves broad, ^ . „, 



whitish underneath 2. M. Browmans. 



1. M. parvifolia, R. Br. Frod. 531. A stout bushy tree, often je'J 

 low on the seacoast, attaining in other situations 30 to 40 ft., the branch ':tS' 

 young foliage, and inflorescence clothed with a loose rusty pubescence, w ut 

 more or less disappears from the full-grown leaves. Leaves on rather on= 



acuminate 



sides or pale underneath, 2 or rarely 3 in. long. FloWcrs solitary or 3 toge- 

 ther m the upper axils, on pedicels of i in or more. Calyx-seguieiits» 

 (rarely 7), lanceolate, acuminate, about 3 lines long, the 4 outer ones p"0^ 

 cent, the uincr ones thinner and more glabrous. Corolla-tube ^ery short- 

 lobes lanceolate, IG outer ones in 2 or 3 rows, 8 inner ones broadly lanceu 

 late, very acute and shortly stipitate. Perfect stamens 8. Filaments verj 



